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I would love to witness what would happen if newspapers, magazines and TV and radio news programs would keep reporting and writing about positive happenings with the same intensity and repetition as they do in regard to negative happenings.

If you’ve been watching the news lately I’m sure you’ve noticed that there have been a rash of shootings occurring lately. New York, where I live, is densely populated so it makes sense that there may be more shootings here than in sparsely populated areas but…all of a sudden?

It’s gotten by senior mind going.

This is where my starting with, “I may be wrong but…” is more than my just being careful. I really don’t have the answers for this. That said I can’t seem to stop a thought that’s been gnawing at me since the third shooting incident was reported. Reports of shootings have been on the air a few times a week now.

I’ve seen shootings occur in the past, especialy when the economy was failing. People were worried and some turned to drink or drugs – there was marijuana and hash in the 60s and cocaine, etc. in the 70s & 80s. I can see how taking drugs can lead to trouble. Having been in the discos till 2AM every night in the early 80s, I saw more craziness than I wished to. I thank spirit to this day that I never took drugs and chose to leave the club scene after working in it for two years.

I’ve learned though studies that when people feel fear they’re capable of doing things they ordinarily wouldn’t do. I’ve learned that FEAR is only a thought and has no reality. What is real is what happens when people choose to act because they have thoughts that are fearful.

In the last year or so I’ve been noticing wild actions that I think may be coming from a different kind of fear. These people may be afraid that they’re not important. When the great singer or great inventor makes headlines that can be a catalyst for others who have dreams in this area going after their dreams. Of course, some less well-adjusted people will feel failure because it’s not them getting the attention. They often try to cling to stars or to people who know them.

Finally to my point – a couple of months ago I started having the urge to call TV news programs asking them why they keep reporting tragic incidents every hour for weeks on end! It happened. We all know, within a couple of days, that it happened. With cell phones and IPads we all know about it even if we’re half way across the planet! I can understand hearing reports about new finding re any specific incident. However, why must the incident itself be shown – if they have footage of it having happened – or interviews with people who may have been in the area, played and replayed for days on end.

I’m going to dare to put forth a theory I have that people who are less than mentally stable and who are unhappy can get fired-up by all the publicity these gun-toters are getting. It took much longer in the mid 1800s for news to travel but look at how the James Brothers tickled the spirits of cowboys and how “The Wild West” became “The Wild West!” Do you remember the sweet cow-hands that nobody talked about?

I sense that a lot of the shootings are what they’ve called “copycat” events.

A revelation hit me when I came back from a Retreat last Friday afternoon and ran over to pay my credit card at a bank on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, across from the Empire State Building. I got there just before the bank closed at 6PM. There had been a killing on the street in front of the Empire State during the morning rush hour. I was contemplating the mess that it caused for people going to work in the morning. Traffic had been reinstated by the afternoon and there weren’t too many (just enough) police around. However, what were around were tucks from every News Program I could think of and others. Some were even double-parked. They lined Fifth Avenue. Each seemed to want to make its presence clear to all passers by.

I wonder if all the news about killings hasn’t led to more of them happening. If the news were simply reported and not dwelt on for days and even weeks I wonder if as many shootings would have followed the first that occurred some months ago.

I wonder if an employer, whose business made a good profit due to the combined efforts of him/herself and the employees of the company, gave a special dinner honoring his/her team – and this would be reported about daily on TV and radio for weeks and written up in papers and magazines and mentioned again and again in future issues – if more businesses might not learn to work with their employees as a team. If good deeds between friends would be reported and given prime attention might that foster more and deeper friendships?

If – and this is a big one in my heart – if people from different and supposedly warring countries who practice supposedly warring faiths were good friends and went out to theater and dinner together and cared about each other – might that not show the world that war isn’t truly necessary? Can we get over the hump of fear that gets between countries’ rulers?

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BOBBIE’S BIO

Bobbie began her theatrical career as an actress, studying with Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel. She appeared in over thirty NYC productions in theaters such as: Playwright’s Horizon’s, AMAS Rep., Hudson Guild, The Gene Frankel Theater, TNC, All Souls’ Players, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory. She also appeared in regional theater and summer stock, working with Jose Ferrer, Katherine Houghton and others.

Bobbie founded and served as Co-Executive/Artistic Director (1999-2006) of The Times Square Group, a not for profit, arts-in-education company, bringing arts education to students in New York City public high and junior high schools. The schools served ranged from arts focused schools to special schools for troubled students.

A half of the comic musical writing/performing team Horowitz & Spector, she won a MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) for their show, Whatever Happened To the Kids From Brooklyn? Their songs have received NY Daily News, Billboard and ASCAP awards and have been played on theatrical musical country radio stations. The pair can be seen on You Tube. Tony winner, Chuck Cooper recorded their song, Together America”
. Bobbie now writes for cabaret performers and is writing a musical. She wrote a musical, The S.C.R.A.P. Workshop with John Meyer and was asked to write a special tribute the top earner of Isagenix. She performed the song at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

She was Executive Producer of Drama Desk Awards 1999 & 2000 and Associate Producer in 2001. Bernadette Peters, Bebe Neuwirth and Lily Tomlin were the hosts respectively. As a commercial theater producer she presented, The Betrayal of Nora Blake, at The Jermyn Street Theatre in London, where it’s sold-out, extended production earned rave reviews and later at The Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach, where it was voted 'Best Musical” by The Palm Beach Post. In past years she produced Angel Street, A Black Girl Talks To God, Victims of Duty and The Great American Backstage Musical off and off-off Broadway.

Bobbie produced major events, among them the first annual Soap Opera Day Celebration along with Mayor’s Koch’s Office of Film, Television and Broadcasting, Ruth Warrick’s Confessions of Phoebe Tyler Book-Launch with guest Ruby Keeler, the Mr. Bill in Space Book-Launch for Real-Good Productions and a Salute to Viveca Lindfors. She co-produced the Farewell To Bowie Kuhn event, which included speakers Howard Cosell, Sonny Werblin and President Emeritus Gerald Ford for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

As an Image Consultant, Bobbie serves private clients and has given seminars at Queens College, NYU School of Film & Television, The NY State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, T. Schreiber Studio, the Learning Annex, trade conventions at The Javitz Center, for corporations and, most recently through The Network. Her article MAXIMPACT was published in the AICI news, She co-wrote the presentation for an Escada fashion tour and was quoted in Seventeen Magazine. Her new book, Find Your Mini Qs: Reveal the Star You Truly Are at 50,60,70 & Beyond! will be in print summer 2010 and her book You’re Looking At A Winner is being updated. She was VP-Education of the Tri-State Chapter of The Association of Image Consultants, International from 1991-1993.

Bobbie was educated in the NYC Public School system, at The New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University (Class Marshall) and at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.